Thursday Thirteen: 13 Great Quotes

1. You once admired my courage to speak boldly for conservative values. The same courage allows me to speak boldly for the biblical view of the Gospel. If I’ve lost favor with you, so be it. But the courage is still the same, and it will cease for no man. – La Shawn Barber

2. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

3. If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. – Arthur Koestler

4. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is. – Ellen DeGeneres

5. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde

6. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Elliot

7. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

8. The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race. – Nellie Hershey Tullis

9. A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just have one thing to say to the authors of that study: D-uh. – Conan O’Brien

10. For fast acting relief try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin

11. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap! – Cynthia Heimel

12. Rather fall with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles

13. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women. – Groucho Marx

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